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Memories from Western Airtemple	By : DarthAnimus Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > AU/AR - Alternate Universe/Alternate Reality > Slash - Male/Male Views: 16187 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Memories from Western Air Temple
Chapter 12
This Sickness in Your Soul

Usually Haru slept through the nights peacefully. Lately, however, the earthbender had had trouble with falling asleep. He would lie awake in bed for what seemed like hours before he would finally slip away to sleep. It was during those hours of wakefulness that Haru would sometimes hear the running footsteps inside the temple, leading outside but never inside. Whoever the person running at night was, they were always in a hurry to leave but never to come back.
Of course, Haru knew who the person was. He had went after the runner the first night he had head the steps and a few times afterwards as well. Then the earthbender had learned that it was always the same person and attempted to ignore the frantic steps that sounded like the person had a need to simply get away, but from what, he was not sure.
Haru did not want to hear those running steps. He did not want to lie in bed waiting to hear them, because he knew that that was the reason he could not sleep at night. He did not want to worry, and yet he did. The reason he could not sleep was because he was worried, worried about the enemy.
Once again the running steps echoed outside the door and again Haru dragged himself out of bed to follow after. He would walk, knowing very well where the other was headed and in the end he ended up at the fountain outside the temple just in time to see the other lift his head from underneath the water.
Despite his worry, for who would not worry in such a situation, Haru felt no sympathy for the firebender. He did not even know if anything was wrong or if this was simply some nightly ritual of the prince. Still, Haru knew all too well that this was nothing simple, nothing harmless. Zuko only ran outside when he was distraught. Haru knew this since the signs were clear: sometimes Zuko would simply sit beside the fountain, staring into the night with a blank expression but sometimes he would start scrubbing at his hands and face furiously, like he was trying to get rid of an insistent stain and sometimes, rarely at first but more often now, the fire prince would throw up his previous dinner and whimper in pain. Those were the times when Haru could not hate his enemy no matter how hard he tried. Who could hate a mere boy, weakened by an illness?
Whining noises were coming from the form hunched over the fountain and for a moment Haru thought that this was going to be one of those thirdly-mentioned nights. But then the earthbender recognized the broken sounds echoing in the night and darkness.
If there was one thing that could strike a sense of compassion in the most bitter of hearts, then it was the sound of sobbing that rung with the greatest of sorrows and the most agonizing of pains. And that was what Haru heard now, unable to hold on to his vow of never feeling compassion towards a firebender.
Carefully and yet swiftly, Haru walked over to Zuko, planting a hand onto the other’s shoulder without even having decided what he would say yet. Zuko jerked underneath his touch and a teary face rose to him, one golden eyes wide with unspeakable fear.
Quickly, the expression faded and Zuko gasped out: “Oh, it’s you.” The firebender ran a hand through his hair, releasing a laugh that held not a single ounce of humour. “I thought that he had started to torment me even when I was awake.”
Frowning at the cryptic words Haru allowed a short question fall from his lips: “Who?”
For a moment Zuko looked strangely confused, like he did not know the answer himself, but then his expression became neutral as he spoke quietly, tonelessly: “I don’t know.” A hiccup came from the firebender’s mouth as the golden eyes fell to stare into the darkness instead of Haru’s face and Zuko’s voice fell into a tormented, broken wisper: “There’s too many of them and it’s all my fault.”
Realizing that the other teen did not even know he was there anymore, Haru started to seriously wonder about Zuko’s mental stability. Yet, in the daylight Zuko had never acted like this. At daytime Zuko was always so collected, even if he seemed a tad bit strained.
That was when Zuko made to stand up, moving slowly as he walked past Haru and back inside the temple. The other was moving in a daze, like he was walking in his sleep, and Haru wondered if it would be merciful if the prince could always be like that. He watched after the firebender and that was when Haru could see that no herbal remedy could heal this illness, unless it was a deadly poison that would put an end to the pain.
To be continued...
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